[cfe-dev] Adding Structured Exception Handling parsing to clang

[Chris Lattner]

On Apr 24, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Francois Pichet wrote:

> I am planning to add parsing support for Windows Structured Exception
> Handling to clang.
> Parsing, AST support but *not* CodeGen.
> 
> SEH is covered by patent 5,628,016
> (http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=21MgAAAAEBAJ&dq=5,628,016)
> 
> I am not a lawyer but I assume that just parsing and AST support
> doesn't violate that patent.

Hi Francois,

I'm not allowed to read patents :), but I'm very comfortable taking the parsing and AST support into Clang mainline.

-Chris